CHRISTIANITY and CIRCUMCISION

When we ask, Jesus
tells us, we will receive. When we seek, we will find. When
we knock, the door will open. In the Name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

The history of the early Christian church is
crystal clear on the subject of circumcision. Jesus' original
Jewish apostles and disciples, at the Council in Jerusalem
reported on in Acts 15, with the guidance, they said, of God
the Holy Spirit, rejected circumcision of the body completely
(Acts 15). Circumcision is not a Christian act and never has
been. I believe Jesus himself said so in John 7.

Let's look carefully at these and other New
Testament passages, in order to shine the holy, healing light
of Christian scripture into the dense and damaging darkness
that still today rules the majority of homes - including
Christian homes - in America, the last country in the world
to abandon the harmful, sinful practice of erroneously
medicalized infant male circumcision.

Christian priests, ministers, and educators
during the circumcision holocaust in America over the last
130 years have been tragically ignorant and negligent of
their responsibility to understand and preach the Good News
on this important subject. Jesus, the Jew from Bethlehem and
Nazareth, and his Jewish followers saw through the fraudulent
sham of infant circumcision at the very beginning of
Christianity. The Good News for all Christians is that God -
through the Jewish Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus' Jewish
apostles - freed Christians from this harmful "Jewish myth"
(Titus 1:14) for all time.

There is now a worldwide movement, Christian
and otherwise, in favor of genital integrity for minors,
seeking to abolish involuntary, medically unnecessary genital
mutilations of them. Now is the time to point out to everyone
who will listen that Jesus and the early Christian church
clearly perceived - and the New Testament clearly declares -
God to be a loving opponent, not an evil perpetrator of
infant circumcision.

I am admonished by Jesus and the Holy Spirit
to bring my prayerful concerns to His Church, and I do so
now.

I ask Christians to pray about it, and to
read the holy New Testament scriptures on this ancient
subject, a subject that might be difficult for us were it not
for the clear guidance provided to us in John 7, Acts 15, 1
Corinthians, Galatians 2, 5, and 6, Philippians 3, Titus 1,
and other New Testament passages. Please study and pray, for
yourselves, for me, and for our sinful and sexually mutilated
country and world.

The group with the largest number of sexually
mutilated men in the world is the Muslims. Second in numbers
come the Americans. And in a distant third place come the
Jews. We all are in dire need of repentance and forgiveness
for our sins against our brothers and sisters, stemming from
our puzzling and sometimes deliberate blindness and ignorance
on this matter, so important to the early church and to us as
present-day Christians and human beings, God's children
all.

This is especially true of us Christians who
have the advantage of being taught in our own Holy Scriptures
that circumcising is evil. We have not been paying attention.
We do not want to know. But Jesus tells us we WILL know the
truth and the truth WILL set us free.

"Father please forgive us, for we know not
what we do."

But we do know that He will forgive us if we
ask Him to. If we ask, we will receive the truth, if we seek,
we will find the truth, if we knock, the door to the truth
will be opened to us, whether we like it or not. When the
door opens, God will let us slam it shut again if we want to,
but the price of rejecting the truth is the loss of the
freedom God intends for us, and the visiting of the sins of
the fathers onto the sons to the third and fourth
generation.

The early Christian church split with Judaism
over mutilating the genitals of the Gentiles.

Listen to St. Paul's plain words in Titus:
[My added words are the ones inserted in square brackets.
After much painful experience, study, and prayer on the
subject, this is how I hear St. Paul's meaning in this New
Testament passage:]

Titus 1:10 For there are many rebellious people,
idle-talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the
circumcision, 1:11 who must be silenced because they
mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain
what ought not to be taught.

[The New International Version says they are
"ruining whole households" merely for the "dishonest gain"
sought; in fact, for money, the love of which - when it takes
precedence over the love for our brothers, sisters, and God -
is, as we know from the words of St. Paul, the root of evil
(1 Timothy 6:10). Two thousand years later ignorant
circumcisers are still ruining whole families, Christian and
otherwise, for dishonest gain, for filthy lucre, for mere
money. Beware of them! They "must be silenced", says St.
Paul. Why? Because they are leading Christians astray from
the word and will of God and harming God's children in the
process. Paul continues:]

1:12 A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own
prophets, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts,
lazy gluttons." 1:13 Such testimony is true. For this
reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in
the faith 1:14 and not pay attention to Jewish myths

[the circumcisers, who reject the truth that we are saved
by the love of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, not by the
absurdity of having our sex organs mutilated]

1:15 All is pure to those who are pure.

[including the whole body, including the penis and
foreskin, designed and created good by God in the image of
his own wise and loving choosing]

But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing
is pure,

[not even the magnificent human body, including the holy
sexual handiwork of God Himself]

but both their mind and conscience are corrupted.

[therefore they do not know to leave the body whole as God
made it]

1:16 They profess to know God but with their deeds

[of genital mutilation]

they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient,
and unfit for any good deed.

These quotations from Titus are the words of
St. Paul in the New Testament. I did not make them up.
Circumcising, according to St. Paul, is the deed of evil,
clear evidence of not knowing God's will on this subject, of
denying God and of being disobedient to His will. St. Paul
tells us here that God's so-called requirement to circumcise
the body is a "Jewish myth", not God's will, not a Christian
belief, and that it is not a Christian practice. Never has
been. Never will be.

Could it be any clearer?

Yes it could. Listen again to St. Paul in
Galatians 5.

5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened
again by a yoke of slavery. 5:2 Mark my words! I, Paul,
tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised,
Christ will be of no value to you at all. 5:3 Again I
declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that
he is obligated to obey the whole law. 5:4 You who are
trying to be justified by law have been alienated from
Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

[The idea that Christianity requires
circumcision is completely wrong, says Paul. Quite the
contrary. Christianity requires love and respect for God's
creation, including the male and female sex organs. Do not
backslide into ancient Jewish errors, he admonishes us. We
are people of a NEW covenant of love, not the old one of fear
and laws. For Christians there is ONE law: Christly Love. We
are to love each other as Christ loved us. The love of Christ
- and Christ-like love - cast out fear, including all the
fears that drive circumcision.]

5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the
whole way and emasculate themselves!

[Here in the New Testament, St. Paul is so
enraged at the circumcisionists of his day that he exclaims
that he wishes they would cut off their OWN sex organs
COMPLETELY, instead of trying to mutilate OTHER people's sex
organs. Is there any more graphic way he could tell us that
circumcision is wrong, that those who practice it and
advocate it are mistaken about God's nature and God's will
for our sex organs and our sex lives? Jesus has revealed to
us a perfectly loving God, not a murderous, evil God of
hatred, revenge, and sexual perversion and mutilation.]

5:15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other,
watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

[Circumcision is biting and devouring. It is
the first step to destruction. Don't take it, St. Paul warns
us.]

Could it be any clearer?

Yes, it could. Listen to St. Peter's words at
the Council in Jerusalem on circumcision and the rest of the
Jewish law at which Christianity formally and officially
rejected circumcision of the body forever. A long argument
occurs on the subject amongst the apostles and disciples
assembled for the specific purpose of settling this vexing
question. Then Peter stands and speaks. After reminding them
that God initially chose him to carry the Word to the
gentiles, and that the gentiles heard and accepted the Word
and their hearts were healed and purified by God just as the
Jews' had been, God making no difference between Jew and
gentile, between circumcised and genitally intact, Peter asks
them this crucial question:

Acts 15:10 So now why are you putting God to the test
by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that
neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Here is THE WAY, The Living Bible
translation:

Acts 15:10 And now are you going to correct God by
burdening the Gentiles with a yoke that neither we nor
our fathers were able to bear?

[St. Peter is talking to the
circumcisionists, and he is calling circumcision a burden
that "neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear."
That is a far cry from the incorrect idea that circumcision
is required, or merely unimportant and irrelevant. Peter says
it is an unbearable burden. And he asks them why THEY want to
impose this terrible, intolerable burden on the gentiles. It
is recorded that the whole company became silent as they
looked within their own hearts to answer Peter's very
personal question.]

Listen to Jesus' brother, St. James's words,
following St. Peter's:

Acts 15:13 After they stopped speaking, James replied,
"Brothers, listen to me. 15:14 Simeon has explained how
God first concerned himself to select from among the
Gentiles a people for his name. 15:15 The words of the
prophets agree with this, as it is written, 15:16 'After
this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of
David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it, 15:17 so
that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all
the Gentiles I have called to be my own, says the Lord,
who makes these things 15:18 known from long ago.' 15:19
Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra
difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning
to God, ..."

[Listen to the whole Council at Jerusalem's
written words, following James's speech, to the church at
Antioch conveying the final decision of the Christian Church
on this matter. Here are words from that very letter!]

Acts 15:28 "For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and
to us not to place any greater burden on you than these
necessary rules: 15:29 that you abstain from meat that
has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what
has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you
keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do
well. Farewell."

[Circumcision is not on the list! God the
Holy Spirit through Jesus' apostles assembled in Jerusalem
for the purpose of deciding this fateful issue completely
rejected for all time the evil of physical circumcision and
liberated Christians and Christianity from it forever. The
record is crystal clear in the New Testament itself. Don't
take my word for it. Read the Word yourself. Read the Good
News yourself in your own Bible. Pray about it. And then
rejoice with the church at Antioch and join in their
following Christian celebration!]

Acts 15:31 When they read it aloud, the people
rejoiced at its encouragement.

[All Christians, I believe, guided by holy
scripture and the Holy Spirit, should emulate this Christian
celebration and will receive this Christian joy at our
liberation by God the Holy Spirit from the ancient
misunderstanding and evil of infant circumcision.]

Could it be any clearer?

Yes, it could. Listen especially carefully to
Jesus' own words on circumcision in the Gospel of John:

John 7:21 Jesus replied, "I
performed one miracle and you are all amazed."

[The complete healing on the Sabbath of the
severely crippled man at the well, described in John
5:1-18.]

John 7:22 "However, because Moses
gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came
from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a
male child on the Sabbath. 7:23 But if a male child is circumcised on the
Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are
you angry with me because I made a man completely well on
the Sabbath?"

[The King James Version says "every whit
whole".]

John 7:23 "If a man on the sabbath
day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should
not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a
man every whit whole on the sabbath day?"

["Every whit whole" means every particle,
down to the very last cell. Jesus here contrasts circumcision
- which obviously destroys God-created wholeness - with His
own holy ministry of making men "every whit whole" again by
His complete healing of previously sick, unwhole,
man-damaged, sexually mutilated Jewish men.]

7:24 "Do not judge according to
external appearance, but judge with proper
judgment."

[He instructs us to judge, not by the
external appearance of things, not by the surface, not by the
look of the penis, not hypocritically as the Jews have judged
him in this matter, but in depth, with understanding and
wisdom, correctly.]

We have failed to obey His clear instruction
on this important matter.

Jesus told us He did not come to the healthy
who had no need of him. He is the healer, the good physician
who came to the sick, to the Jews, in fact, virtually the
only people on Earth at the time mistaken enough - sick
enough, lost enough from God - to mutilate the sex organs of
their very own infant children and blame their evil actions
on God.

I am not saying their intentions toward their
children were evil, as I am not saying that today's parents
who have mutilated the genitals of their children were evil.
That is in every case for Jesus to judge, not me. I am saying
that it has been proved scientifically now that the EFFECTS
of circumcision are evil, no matter what the INTENTIONS of
the mutilators are.

That being the fact, Jesus of course knew
that fact.

The Jews were God's chosen people because
they were in this way His sickest children on earth and had
been for centuries, for millennia. The good shepherd leaves
the whole flock to find and bring back and save the one lost
sheep, Israel.

Circumcision destroys human wholeness - Jesus
restores it.

What could be clearer?

Christians should follow Jesus, concluded the
early church, guided by God the Holy Spirit, not ancient and
mistaken Hebrew myths requiring sexual child sacrifice and
blaming God for it. Jesus knew God better than that. So
should we, His followers.

This story about Jesus is much like the story
that took place the next morning on the Mount of Olives,
reported in John 8:1-11. It is the more familiar story of the
adulteress brought to Him by the Jews who asked Him if they
should impose the death penalty on her for her sexual sin by
stoning her to death, as required in Old Testament law. Jesus
had brought up sex the day before when he taught in the
Temple about circumcision and healing. Now here is sex
rearing its "ugly" head again the very next day.

Jesus didn't say to them, "The Old Testament
law on stoning unfaithful wives to death is wrong. Don't pay
any attention to that ancient, evil Hebrew myth." They would
have stoned Him AND her to death on the spot! His time had
not yet come. Instead, He said, "Let he who is without sin
among you cast the first stone.", thereby saving her life,
and, for a short time, his own.

In the same way, and for the same reason, I
think, Jesus appears not to have said the day before in the
Jewish temple in Jerusalem, "The Old Testament law on
circumcision is wrong. Don't pay any attention to that
ancient, evil Hebrew myth." They would have killed Him
instantly, and His time had not yet come. Instead, He said,
at least as I hear His message across the intervening
millennia, something like -

"In obedience to what you mistakenly believe
that God commands - this so-called 'command' to mutilate
babies' genitals comes not from God but from man, from your
forefathers, not even from Moses - you sometimes circumcise a
baby boy on the Sabbath. It appears that through me, God
sometimes chooses to heal a man completely on the Sabbath,
every last part, including his penis, and his God-created
foreskin. Who are we to question how and when and who and
through whom God chooses to heal, to make men every whit
whole again? Shouldn't we just rejoice when He heals, with
the faithful one who is healed? Can't we all just get
along?"

The underlying message, though, the
contradiction that Jesus showed the Jewish authorities in the
Temple in Jerusalem - in the very heart of the inconceivably
arrogant circumcisionist blasphemy and circumcisionist heresy
- that absolute contradiction between God's healing love and
power on the one hand, and their own infant circumcising on
the other, was just too clear and too strong. We may not
understand Jesus' clear words and meaning in John 7 today,
but THEY sure got him loud and clear in person back then!
They were incensed with Jesus' teaching - in the very temple
itself! - against the ancient evil of infant circumcision.
They said and believed that the circumcision madness came
from God. Jesus knew better. He knew and said that it did
not. What they idolized and many still do today - sexual
sacrifice of infants, infant sexual child abuse and
mutilation in the name of God - Jesus proclaimed as evil.
Simply because it is evil. At least doubly so. It is not just
mutilation. It is mutilation in God's name. It is blasphemy
against God and his goodness.

John 7:7 "The world cannot hate
you", Jesus said to his disciples, "but it hates me, because I am testifying
about it that its deeds are evil."

Those committing this evil very soon demanded
that the Romans crucify Him for telling them the truth. Jesus
died for advocating and for bringing truth and human
wholeness on every level, including the sexual.

Jesus preferred and brought human wholeness
wherever He went, but we sinful humans prefer human
brokenness, in ourselves and in others, so much so that we
even break our brand new babies, and blame our blatantly
obvious sexual sin and heinous sex crime on God, and when God
tries to heal us of our brokenness and our breaking, we kill
Him for it.

"Crucify him! Crucify him!"

Jesus was already aware that they wanted to
kill Him even before he gave this important, radical teaching
in the Temple. Here is the whole fateful, holy passage from
the Gospel of John:

John 7:1 After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee.
He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish authorities
wanted to kill him. 7:2 Now the Jewish feast of
Tabernacles was near. 7:3 So Jesus' brothers advised him,
"Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see
your miracles that you are performing. 7:4 For no one who
seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in
secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to
the world." 7:5 (For not even his own brothers believed
in him.)

7:6 So Jesus replied, "My time has
not yet arrived, but you are ready at any
opportunity. 7:7 The world
cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying
about it that its deeds are evil."

[Can you imagine a young, untutored man
testifying in the presence of the Jewish authorities - the
oldest and wisest that Judaism had to offer at the time, in
the very Temple in Jerusalem itself - that their "holy"
circumcision genital mutilation rite, instituted by "God"
through Father Abraham, is - EVIL? Get ready! Here it comes,
from the very heart and mouth of Jesus! Jesus is calling
infant circumcision evil. I hear it clearly. I believe it.
The man was a Jewish revolutionary, primarily a revolutionary
in his understanding of the goodness and love of God for us,
just as Abraham was when he understood that God did not want
him to kill Isaac. And Jesus met the fate of many
revolutionaries who try to help us heal our brokenness. The
list is very long and there are many familiar names on it,
but the name above all others is Jesus.]

7:8 "You go up to the feast
yourselves. I am not going up to this feast yet, because
my time has not yet fully arrived." 7:9 When he
had said this, he remained in Galilee. 7:10 But when his
brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself
also went up, not openly but in secret. 7:11 So the
Jewish authorities were looking for him at the feast,
asking, "Where is he?" 7:12 There was a lot of grumbling
about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a
good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."
7:13 However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of
the Jewish authorities.

[Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear of the Jewish
authorities! Is it any different today? Where is the
Christian love to cast out this killing fear? Ask for it, and
you will receive it! Pray for it and it will come! Love
enough will come even for your enemies! Even for terrorists.
Even for circumcisers who claim, falsely - against the
testimony of Jesus, His apostles, and the Holy Spirit - that
God requires this evil terror of genital mutilation. It is
now wrecking and ruining not just whole individual
households, but whole nations and our whole world. Look
around.]

Teaching in the Temple

7:14 When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to
the temple and began to teach. 7:15 Then the Jewish
authorities were astonished and said, "How does this man
know so much when he has never had formal
instruction?"

["How could he know so much? He hasn't
studied with US! And WE know EVERYTHING! We know ESPECIALLY
how holy CIRCUMCISION is! He doesn't even have a college
degree or a teacher's certificate! Where did he learn all
this stuff he's spouting?"

Christians believe - because Jesus said so -
that he learned it straight from God.]

7:16 So Jesus replied, "My teaching
is not from me, but from the one who sent me. 7:17
If anyone wants to do God's will, he
will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or
whether I speak from my own authority.

7:18 The person who speaks on his
own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the
one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a
man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in
him. 7:19 Hasn't Moses given you
the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you
want to kill me?"

7:20 The crowd answered, "You're possessed by a demon!
Who is trying to kill you?"

["You're paranoid!" we would say. "You're
crazy! Nobody wants to kill you!" A short time later he was
dead, killed at the insistence of the very people he said
wanted to, who had lied - probably even to themselves - and
denied that they did.]

7:21 Jesus replied, "I performed one
miracle and you are all amazed."

[The healing of the invalid at the well on the Sabbath.
John 5:1-18.]

7:22 "However, because Moses gave
you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from
Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male
child on the Sabbath. 7:23 But
if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the
law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me
because I made a man completely well on the
Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge
according to external appearance, but judge with proper
judgment."

The fact that the healing occurred on the
Sabbath was their technical, legalistic EXCUSE for their
anger, the excuse with which they tried to dress up and
disguise in religious terms and hide - from everyone,
including themselves - and justify their evil, murderous
feelings toward Jesus. Jesus showed them that His healing on
the Sabbath is not the real reason for their anger at him.
After all, they practiced circumcising on the Sabbath. What
could possibly be wrong in God's eyes, then, with HEALING on
the Sabbath. There is a deeper, more insidious reason for
their anger, an evil reason, which they try to disguise with
religious law.

'...are ye angry at me, because I
have made a man every whit whole...?"

(King James version.)

THAT is the deep, penetrating question Jesus
asks them. Jesus was healing people right and left, making
them "every whit whole" again, restoring their whole bodies
and minds - including their sexual bodies and minds - to
health and happiness and God-intended human wholeness.
(Practicing medicine without a license! How DARE He!) And
those left out of his healing were furious! Enraged!
MURDEROUSLY so! HATED being left out. And so they hated and
blamed Christ the inclusive healer for their own
sickness.

Miraculous healings! Stunning healings!
Frightening, TERRIFYING healings, to those who didn't
understand them and couldn't accept them as the miraculous
will and work of God. Those left out of the real healing and
love of God by their OWN choice, not by God's choice, were
furious, MURDEROUSLY FURIOUS - with God. For this, Jesus was
crucified and killed by the mistaken, fearful, circumcising,
sick and sickening, sexually mutilating religious culture of
the Jews of the day.

Judaism, I believe, is fundamentally about
justice, mercy, and walking humbly with God, not about
unjustly, unmercifully, arrogantly chopping up babies'
penises, sexually butchering and mutilating men for life. I
believe that Judaism is changing, too, now, going back at
last to its fundamental foundations: Justice, Mercy, and
Humility in the presence of a loving and merciful God.

If God does not want us chopping up our
babies' sex organs, did Jesus know it 2000 years ago? For
Christians, the answer is obvious: Jesus knew it from before
the beginning of the world.

Would such knowledge of God have gotten Jesus
into serious trouble with the proud and arrogant Jewish
religious authorities of the day? For intactivists, the
answer is obvious: Everyone who tries to keep parents from
sexually abusing their children gets themselves into serious
trouble with the sexually abusing parents. If the parents
claim "God" as their co-abuser, and believe their claim,
criticism of the abuse can be deadly for the critic.

Do God the Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit want us to protect our children from this
ancient, destructive, mutilative Jewish myth? For intactivist
Christians, the answer couldn't be more obvious: Of
course!

There have been Jews throughout history who
have understood that circumcision is not the will of our
loving parent God, who made us correctly in God's own image.
Jesus was one of those enlightened Jews. They have not won
yet. The majority of Jews, religious and secular, still
circumcise their male babies, but Jewish intactivists are
winning battles every day and they will win this war, just as
they won the war against stoning unfaithful wives to death. I
believe the final Jewish victory over mistaken Jewish
circumcision will come soon.

And we confused U.S. Christians today - just
as sick as the Jews of Jesus' day; sicker; we should know
better; we should read our New Testament - we do the same as
those Jews of long ago did, with far less excuse, to the
loving babies and the loving Jesus. He told us if we do it to
them we do it to him (Matthew 25:40). We circumcise them and
we kill some of them in the process every year. Crucifixion -
murder - by any other name is still just as evil. Calling it
"circumcision" doesn't help.

Was the torture, crucifixion, and death of
the innocent, powerful, healing, loving Jesus at the hands of
crucifixionists the work of evil in the world? If not, there
is no such thing as evil.

Is the torture, mutilation, and sometimes
death of innocent, powerful, healing, loving little babies at
the hands of circumcisionists also the work of the same evil?
If not, there is no such thing as evil.

Jesus told us it would be better for us to
have a millstone tied around our neck and be thrown into the
sea than to offend even one of these little ones of His
(Matthew 18:6). Circumcision offends them. You don't have to
believe me. Witness one of these ancient, sick sex crimes for
yourself. You will see a mortally offended - and properly so
- child of God, being butchered alive like an animal.

Look at a "Circumstraint" board, to which
babies are strapped down for mutilation, just as Jesus was
nailed to the cross for crucifixion. The Circumstraint
resembles nothing so much as a little cross for infants. All
it needs to make its murderous, spirit-killing mission clear
is a slight redesign to hold the arms straight out away from
the body instead of slightly curved down at the sides.

As it is, perhaps the Circumstraint resembles
more the injection tables used now to strap down and execute
people on death row, some of whom have been proved, too late,
as innocent of the crimes for which they were murdered as
Jesus was innocent of any crime - the New Testament nowhere
says that Jesus ever circumcised a baby, for example; can you
even imagine him doing such a thing? - as innocent as the
babies being brutally and ignorantly mutilated, being
rendered sexually dysfunctional for life by primitive and
very sick human genital mutilations at the rate of one every
26 seconds in the U.S.A. today.

Some ignorant people even call these ancient
sex crimes "Christian". Do not be fooled by them, St. Paul
cautions us. Read the Good Book.

Christian history as reported faithfully in
the New Testament makes clear that both the torture and
crucifixion of Christ at the end of his life and the torture
and circumcision of babies at the beginning of theirs are
great evils and are not from God. God is liberating us from
these ancient and godless evils, through Christ.

But will we arrogant, murderous, evil sinners
EVER listen? People HATE Jesus - he said so himself - because
he tells us the truth about ourselves, he testifies and shows
us that our deeds ARE evil, including our deeds of
circumcision. Better to kill Him and be done with Him.

Some Christians say, "Jesus was circumcised,
so it must be right!" Jesus was also crucified. Should we
crucify our children when they reach the tender age of
thirty-three? Just because WE did it to Him - circumcision or
crucifixion - that doesn't automatically make it right. We
are sinful, remember? He came and suffered circumcision by
our hands at the beginning of his life and crucifixion by our
hands at the end of it to SHOW us our evil sin, to bring us
to repentance, to save us, to heal us, to make us whole again
in God's forgiveness and love.

These passages found in the New Testament
were very clarifying for me about Jesus, Christian history,
Christianity, and circumcision. Please read the whole
passages. We need the whole. There is much more to be found
in the New Testament on the subject of circumcision. To
understand it we must understand clearly this early Christian
history and the plain historical fact that Jesus and
Christianity at its beginning, rejected circumcision of the
penis completely and replaced it with "circumcision of the
heart", spiritual circumcision - with baptism, a far gentler
rite.

I hope Christians will pray together and
study Holy scripture and modern science (which finally now
agrees with Christianity that circumcision is backward,
damaging, and evil in its effects even when not in its
intent), and seek better understanding of all these important
matters. They can be very fateful, "ruining whole
households", as St. Paul says. Killing whole babies.
Circumcision can and does kill babies in this country and
around the world every year - many of them, Jewish,
Christian, and otherwise - from shock, from bleeding to
death, from infection, and all totally unnecessarily. How can
Christians be doing this to our babies? How can we? To say
the very least, this is not Christ-like love.

Would Jesus have us kill our children? Of
course not! Absurd! We Christians are not subject to and
slaves of the old Hebrew law, but freed by Jesus and the Holy
Spirit into the holy love and eternal salvation of God.
Freedom from the ancient evil of circumcision is one crystal
clear teaching of Christianity. It is a vital and important
part of the Good News and must be preached as such around the
world, and especially in America today, the last country in
the world still circumcising for non-religious reasons the
majority of our infant males.

Part of the ever-lighter burden God has laid
on my heart - people don't like me bringing up the subject
any more than they liked Jesus bringing it up, but He didn't
let people's anger at Him for doing so stop Him, not even in
the Temple in Jerusalem! - is the opportunity and the
privilege to try my best to be sure these unnecessary and
torturous sexual mutilations and completely unnecessary baby
killings stop happening in my families, including my
biological families, my church families, and my human family
around the world.

As Titus, Galatians, Acts of the Apostles,
the Gospel of John, and many other passages in the New
Testament make perfectly clear for all with eyes to see or
ears to hear, circumcision is not a loving, Christian act.
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit want us - all of us - whole.
That is the way God made us. Destroying God's exquisite,
perfect handiwork without just cause is simply blasphemy and
heresy against the obvious and miraculous work of God
CREATING God's miracle of human wholeness, which reveals the
clear will of God FOR God's miracle of human wholeness. We
are made in the image of God's own choosing. Redesigning and
mutilating the human body to our own perverted liking is
clear sin.

Christians! Rejoice in the freedom and love
of Jesus Christ and be forever free from the ancient evil of
inhuman genital mutilation!

Praise and Glory be to the wise, holy, and
loving God who designed and made us all.